Pratchett fan as I am, excited as I got thinking it came out in August and not September, ...
Why buy a tiny bit of the book? What purpose is there in it, other than to get money, and great and honoured as Sir pT is, I just find it a bit, 'coin grabbing'. It's not so long now to September, what's the mad rush? After all, it would it not spoil the book? A bit like reading the last chapter first? And besides, is it signed?

I won't be buying it! I'll be a little saint, with slipped halo, and wait for the book to come out!

I didn't, but everyone else did, it seems. I imagine the Ebay vendors picked theirs up free of charge.

It did occur to me that they might have value in the future, because they are the kind of thing that people throw away, but I didn't expect anyone to be paying for them now, when they are freely available, both in the sense of being widely obtainable, and that of being without cost, in Waterstones still.

I collect anything Discworld so as I could not get hold of a free one, paying a couple of quid to add to my collection is fine, we all enjoy Discworld in our own ways, just cause others won't not get it, does not mean everyone feels then same.

PS
I won't read it when it comes it will sit on my bookshelf with the rest of my unread collection